[9] Archdeacon Froude, sixty years Rector of his parish, died Feb. 23, 1859. See _Gentleman’s Magazine_ for that year, i., 437, and _Boase’s Modern English Biography_, i., 1110.
[10] W. Brockedon, F.R.S., F.R.G.S. (b. 1787, d. 1854), was a watchmaker and inventor at Totnes. In 1809 he was enabled by Archdeacon Froude and Mr. Holdsworth, M.P. for Dartmouth, to go up to London to study at the Royal Academy till 1815, when he went abroad and started upon his career.
[11] ‘Poor Att’ [little Anthony Froude], Hurrell wrote in 1828, ‘is such a very good-tempered little fellow that in spite of his sawneyness [_i.e._, sensitiveness, or softness] he is sure to be liked.’ ‘I,’ he goes on to say, ‘was an ill-natured sawney, and do not at all wish my time at School to come again.’
[12] _Eton School Lists_, edited by H. E. Chetwynd. Stapleton, 1864.
[13] She married William Mallock, Esq. The distinguished writer, Mr. William Hurrell Mallock, is their son.
[14] The ‘Passon Chowne’ of Mr. Blackmore’s _Maid of Sker_.
[16] ‘To do our best is one part, but to wash our hands smilingly of the consequence is the next part of any sensible virtue.’ _The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson._ New York: Scribner, 1899, i., 342.
[18] In the now obsolete sense of fanaticism.
[21] Archdeacon Froude had come into possession of his Denbury estate, through the three coheiresses of the last feoffee, in 1807, when his eldest son was four years old.
[22] His two elder sisters are always so called in his letters.
[23] Keble quitted Oxford when his mother died, and took sole charge of East Leach, Burthorpe and Southrop parishes, near his father’s home in Fairford. He had one thousand people to look after, in all; the three livings aggregated but £100 a year.
[24] The Rev. S. Baring-Gould, _The Book of the West_. Devon, i., 319.
[25] Buckland-in-the-Moor, near Ashburton, celebrated for its rocky heights and magnificent views.
[27] Milton, as early as 1817, was one of Keble’s own big bold prejudices. It is but fair to Froude to quote, in order that his remark may not be misconstrued, his conviction that ‘it is not perhaps too much to say that [Milton’s] was the most powerful mind which ever applied itself to poetry.’ Like Professor Raleigh in our own day, Froude denied that colossal genius to be, properly speaking, a religious poet at all. See _Remains_, part i., ii., 318-321, and Note.